Posts Tagged by Competitive foods

The sin­gle worst thing to hap­pen to my kids’ eat­ing habits was start­ing school. A bold state­ment, I know, but it’s true. It isn’t like they’d never had cheap, neon-colored cup­cakes and arti­fi­cially infused candy before walk­ing through the doors. But with their enroll­ment (begin­ning with preschool) came a dra­matic boost in their con­sump­tion of […] more

After last week’s rant, I guess it’s no secret that I’m no fan of junk food in school (with the excep­tion of occa­sional school par­ties, which I’m con­vinced could be just as fun with health­ier fare…just sayin’!). But the thought of kids being able to buy highly processed sugary/salty/artery-damaging stuff at school every day? If […] more

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I cre­ated this blog to raise aware­ness and start a dia­logue about the var­i­ous issues involved in school food. By writ­ing about it, I hope to pro­vide par­ents and edu­ca­tors with ideas and inspi­ra­tion for mak­ing healthy changes in their own schools. Since healthy eat­ing habits start at home, I also address com­mon feed­ing chal­lenges faced by parents.

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